&'Costa focuses on combining light and design to provide all new lighting products that offer luminous solutions for
interiors. By applying the knowledge it has gained through extensive research, light is expressed through transparency,
visibility and brightness. Materials employed to achieve these effects include wood, steel, glass, ceramic as well as metal
mesh, thin wooden veneers, fluted blown glass and polycarbonate sheets, giving these objects of art fundamental and functional
design.

"I hardy see any difference in styling a lamp, a chair, a catalogue, an interior architecture. All is design."

Carlo Zerbaro, designer, an experience starting from a family operating in hydro-electric engineering field. With such projecting background he starts his way towards communication research in design: he studies architecture attending various stages at Biennale Venezia. In the mid of the 70ies he approaches photography and starts his designer activity in 1981 cooperating with different furniture firms. He founds MASTROCILIEGIA Studio involved in industrial design and communication consultancy.

In 2000 he founds &'COSTA, lighting company. With the aim of introducing advanced design in lighting he renews his management skill. With the help of young artists designers and skilled technicians he builds up a "factory" where experience and creativity melt together in order to produce and distribute his own idea of "lighting expression".

In 2004 with &'COSTA (showroom New York, next opening Shanghai) starts a cooperation with a renewed fashion company for an open project.

Carlo Zerbaro is ADI associated (Association for Industrial Design), italian institution parts of ICSID (International Council of Societies of Industrial Design), of BEDA (Bureau of European Designers Associations) and of ICOGRADA (International Council of Graphic Design Associations).

Setting up of various projects for italian companies in showrooms: Zurigo, Losanna, Monaco, Colonia, Londra, Tokyo.

He has obtained many recognitions in various contests and shows:

Federlegno Assarredo Milano: he wins the national contest for the realization of the coordinated representative imagine of all italian companies in Germany (for "Internationale Möbelmesse-Koln").

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Beautiful but fragileThe steel mesh is very flexible and was damaged during shipping. YLighting promptly sent a replacement, but that too was not perfectly circular. We decided to hang it anyway, hoping that it would not be noticeable when hung up. It turned out to be fine. Its almost impossible to notice unless looking straight up from below.